He committed history’s greatest maritime heist — then vanished without a trace.

In September 1695, Henry Every captured the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s treasure ship, the Ganj-i-Sawai, seizing a fortune worth tens of millions in today’s currency. The attack triggered an international crisis that nearly destroyed England’s trade with India, provoked the fury of the most powerful empire in Asia, and launched the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history.

Then Every disappeared — and no one has ever found him.

Every Man for Himself is the definitive account of the pirate whose single audacious raid shook empires and changed the course of history. Drawing on Admiralty records, East India Company correspondence, trial transcripts from the Old Bailey, and colonial archives, this meticulously researched narrative traces Every’s journey from the seafaring communities of Devon through the Royal Navy and the Atlantic slave trade, to the fateful mutiny aboard the Charles II and his ruthless campaign across the Indian Ocean.

This is not the sanitized pirate of popular imagination. The true story includes the brutal realities of the Golden Age of Piracy — the violence aboard the Ganj-i-Sawai, the desperate diplomacy of the East India Company, the show trials at the Old Bailey, and the corrupt colonial governors who sold safe harbor to the most wanted man in the world.

From the harbors of Devon to the Red Sea, from the Mughal court in Delhi to the gallows at Execution Dock, Every Man for Himself is a gripping true crime narrative of greed, empire, and the man who got away with it all.

For readers of Empire of Blue Water, Under the Black Flag, Enemy of All Mankind, and Pirate Hunters.